Shower Cap’s Midterms Six-Packs

Awesome Women: Diversity Bomb

I bet the Kavanaugh hearings left you sick and tired of that gaggle of crusty old straight white dudes making decisions for everybody else, right? Don’t you think it’s long past time to get some new perspectives in Congress? Why don’t we start with these ridiculously-qualified candidates?

Lucy McBath

The Good Gal

Sharice Davids

Sharice Davids makes plenty of headlines, as potentially the first openly LGBTQ Native American Woman in congress, and an MMA fighter, and a lawyer, but there’s so much more to like beyond the biography. Health care, DACA, voting rights, gun control, education…it’s all there. She’s whip smart, tough as nails, and has the sort of real-life experiences and perspective we need to counterbalance all those lawyers and businesstwerps on Capitol Hill.

The Good Gal

Lucy McBath

Of all our candidates, Lucy McBath is the strongest gun control advocate, a national spokesperson and Faith & Outreach Leader for Everytown and Moms Demand Action. Tragically, McBath’s activism grew out of her son’s murder at the hands of an armed lunatic who felt he had the right to shoot human beings to death because he thought their music was too loud. Beyond guns, Lucy, like all our best candidates, is running an issue-heavy, district-focused campaign. Georgia is changing, my friends…let’s help it along.

Texas

TX-23

Ratings:

FiveThirtyEight: Toss-Up

Roll Call: Tilt Rep

Cook: Lean Rep

Sabato: Toss-Up

The Bad Guy

Will Hurd

Will Hurd is one of those Republicans who likes to make occasional tsk tsk sounds at Trump, but still votes with him 95% of the time. This is particularly important in this race, because Hurd’s whole brand is Calm Rational Bipartisan Centrist. See, he paints himself as a noble moderate, but he votes like a right-wing fanatic. WE SEE YOU, WILL. In addition, Hurd, a former intelligence officer, has been one of Devin “PF” Nunes’ loyal stooges, so fuck him with a goddamn rake.

Now, in this coin-flip purple state race, both candidates are described as “moderate,” but let’s take a quick peek at the differences between what the word “moderate” means to Democrats these days, versus what it means to our frothy friends across the aisle.

Martha McSally is a veteran with a long, admirable military career. She certainly wouldn’t the worst Republican in the Senate, but this is a golden opportunity to stop the Trump/McConnell agenda cold. Pounce on it!